National Security: A certain overseas company, using the distribution of cryptocurrency as a gimmick, is collecting global users' iris information, posing an information security threat

BlockBeats News: On August 6, the official WeChat account of the Ministry of Public Security stated that in the digital age, biometric recognition technology has rapidly developed and been widely used due to its accuracy and convenience. It has brought great convenience to our lives, but the hidden data leakage risk behind its data collection cannot be ignored.

The iris is a colored circular area surrounding the pupil, located between the pupil and the sclera. Its surface is covered with complex texture details such as spots, filaments, coronal structures, stripes, and crypts. These features are highly stable and difficult to replicate, possessing high precision and uniqueness. Applied in high-security key areas, they often attract the attention of malicious actors and may be collected and stolen under the guise of legitimate purposes.

There are public cases where a foreign company used the distribution of cryptocurrency tokens as a gimmick to scan and collect user iris information worldwide, and then transferred the data source, posing a threat to personal information security and even national security.